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OPINION

Letter: Politicians disrespect Americans on health care

Our congressional representatives have wasted no time in their attempts to deceive and dismantle access to health insurance coverage for all Americans while also threatening the Social Security and Medicare programs and Planned Parenthood (the provider of health care for millions of American women). It's interesting that while they are guaranteed federally paid health insurance and pensions for life, they would deny working Americans access to health care and then later security of income and health care as we age. These are services that we have paid for our entire working lives. There are no entitlements here.

The con man who was elected president swore that these programs would not be compromised or destroyed. Did anyone believe that narcissistic thug of a person who has total disregard and disdain for most people and the Constitution?

How can one even justify such cutbacks? It certainly isn't a lack of financial means. We have no trouble wasting millions of taxpayers' dollars on bogus congressional investigations that have been nothing but vindictive attacks on certain individuals (while barely taking seriously foreign threats that have intervened in our democratic election process). We will waste millions of dollars in Secret Service costs because our president-elect doesn't want to live in the White House and we will have to pay, with our tax dollars, to protect him both in New York and Washington while we deny people basic rights to health care.

Nice job, America. Let's use all those highly prized guns we own to shoot ourselves in the foot by electing these self-serving hypocrites to Congress.

What a great disservice to the American people and disrespect for their constitutional responsibilities to represent the needs of the people.